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Tiger Woods will not be on hand to defend his title at the Players Championship this week at TPC Sawgrass. He will be at home recovering from back surgery and will not return to the tour for several weeks. Although the Players is not considered a major championship, it offers a $10 million purse with $1.8 million going to the winner. The PGA Championship is the only other tournament matching...
Published: May 4, 2014
At just 17 years old, Lydia Ko is making quite a mark on the LPGA Tour. She won the 2012 CN Canadian Women’s Open as a 15-year-old amateur and proved it was no fluke by repeating the feat in 2013. In addition, she won two other professional tournaments in Australia and New Zealand as a teenage amateur. After declaring her professional status last October, she was granted membership by the LPGA...
Published: May 3, 2014
Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy are the two biggest names in the Wells Fargo Championship field this week. Mickelson is still looking for his first top-10 finish this year, and McIlroy has not won on the PGA Tour since 2012. Mickelson was among the leaders after a first-round five-under par 67 left him in second place behind Angel Cabrera. A second-round three-over par 75 moved him 28 spots down the...
Published: April 30, 2014
The Telegraph reported that Donald Trump is in the process of adding another golf property to his vast real estate holdings. Trump is purchasing historic Turnberry in Scotland. Yes, that Turnberry, the site of the “Duel in the Sun” with Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson battling for four rounds over the iconic links course in 1977, with Watson eventually emerging as the winner. This...
Published: April 28, 2014
Lydia Ko won her first tour event as an LPGA member at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic and will move to No. 2 in the world. She just turned 17 years old on Thursday, and the $270,000 winner’s check is a nice birthday gift to herself. She had been the fourth-ranked player in the world on the Rolex Rankings, but she will jump over Stacy Lewis and Suzann Pettersen to claim the No. 2 spot behind...
Published: April 28, 2014
With Tiger Woods forced to take time away from the tour as a result of back surgery and Phil Mickelson battling health issues of his own, other players like Jimmy Walker and Patrick Reed have multiple wins in 2014. There are also a host of players, including former major champions, who are normally visible at the top of leaderboards but are having less than successful seasons so far. Many European...
Published: April 21, 2014
Many people have forgotten that Lee Westwood spent 22 weeks as the No. 1-ranked player in the world in the latter part of 2010 and early 2011. Most golf fans think of him as a very good European Tour player who has not won a major championship. Westwood will turn 41 years old this week, and he won the Maybank Malaysian Open on Sunday for his 23rd European Tour win. He also has four wins in Japan,...
Published: April 20, 2014
Michelle Wie is just 24 years old, but she has been a professional golfer for nearly 10 years. The LPGA Tour is reluctant to admit membership to young women under the age of 18. Rather than fight the women’s tour for spots in their tournaments, when she turned professional at the age of 15, Wie and her parents decided to play several PGA Tour events and build her brand name for huge endorsement...
Published: April 2, 2014
It’s hard to believe Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are at a disadvantage on the golf course, but that is indeed the case. Mickelson is 43 years old and will turn 44 on the Monday following the U.S. Open in June. Woods is 38, and both Woods and Mickelson have been bothered by injuries this season. Neither has a top-10 finish in 2014, and Woods has played only 10 competitive rounds on the PGA...
Published: March 31, 2014
With the proliferation of talented golfers under the age of 30 winning PGA Tour events, who is the best young golfer currently on the PGA Tour? Rory McIlroy (24), Keegan Bradley (27) and Webb Simpson (28) all have major championship trophies on their mantles. Patrick Reed, at the tender age of 23, has three PGA Tour wins and is confident that he is one of the five best players in the world. A...